Re:Linux and Reliability
by RiderOfGiraffes on Thursday March 31, 2011 @03:41PM
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With regards the install, it said "Click here to upgrade" and I did that. Nothing happened.
With regards a different browser, that may yet be what I do.
With regards a reinstall, it's older hardware, so there's every chance a newer version won't run - I've had that happen before.
And I have tested the hardware quite thoroughly - it's fine. Flash breaking is something I'm seeing on several platforms, including my Windows laptop, where Chrome regularly says "Oh look! Flash Crash!" (or something).
I love programming, I just hate computers. I wish I could go back to embedded work. I enjoyed fitting TCP stacks onto new chips with 100 bytes of RAM.
Also, it sounds like there is a discrepancy between how you initially installed Flash, vs. how you're trying to do it now. If you have the Flash repository, it should be a simple update. "Should be," but since it's not, it sounds like you're using a different method now.
If you keep /home on its own partition, re-installing the distro should be trivial (although definitely overkill).
In terms of why the browser can't leave feedback anymore, nor play videos, those are bizarre breakages which makes me think you can't be sure it's not the hardware (perhaps run "dmesg" just to see if there's anything interesting, always do Memtest86+ to make sure you have good RAM).